Seema Sirohi
Read biographySeema Sirohi is a foreign policy analyst currently based in Washington. She has worked for The Telegraph (Calcutta), Outlook and Ananda Bazar Patrika in the past, reporting from Geneva, Rome, Bratislava, Belgrade, Paris, Islamabad and Washington on a range of issues. Author of Sita’s Curse: Stories of Dowry Victims, she has been a commentator on BBC, CNN and NPR.
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Obama’s new guidelines on drone strikes: Pak will remain on radar
Washington: President Obama’s new counter-terrorism doctrine is an attempt to restrict the controversial drone programme but without losing his prerogative to still strike wherever and whenever necessary. That largely means Pakistan where top terrorist leaders of al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Taliban remain – some in plain sight and some in hiding. There #Counter-terrorism doctrine #Drones #f al-Qaeda #HowThisWorks #Lashkar-e-Taiba #Obama #Pakistan #President Obama #Taliban
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Big deal: Obama’s shale gas decision is a huge opportunity for India
Washington – The Obama Administration’s decision to allow export of shale gas is a very big deal – for India, if the Indian companies can get their act together and get into the game quickly. The decision is loaded with geopolitical significance, one that could be a game changer in Asia #Barack Obama #energy security #GAIL #Nirupama Rao #Shale gas #US #World
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As historic elections dawn, public mood in Pakistan is dismal
Washington – As Pakistan heads to the polls, two new surveys about Pakistani attitudes and fears are worth noting. When you put the findings together, the emergent picture is of a country at war within and without, and a nation confused about its core that seeks answers in more Sharia #Imran Khan #Nawaz Sharif #Pakistan elections 2013 #World
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Sikhs abroad will continue to hound likes of Sajjan Kumar
Washington: Sajjan Kumar should not rest easy. The Sikh diaspora abroad, which is increasingly activist and angry, will continue to hound him and others. If anyone thought the memories of 1984 anti-Sikh riots and an apology from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assuaged the hurt, they had better prepare themselves for #1984 anti-sikh riots #India #Kamal Nath #OnOurMind #Sajjan Kumar #Sikh #US #World
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Why the US needs to change how it views Pakistan
Washington: Predictions of a nuclear war in South Asia by American analysts always churn the stomachs of, well, South Asians who sit in the audience listening to dire warnings silently praying that their leaders have more sense than are given credit for. The more daring taunt the Americans for having #Foreign policy #HowThisWorks #India #Nuclear weapons #Pakistan #US
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Why Pakistan should give up its opposition to Indo-US nuclear deal
Washington: Pakistan’s penchant for parity with India has become an “extreme sport” – a continuous “scrum” against the impossible. Nowhere was it more evident than at the just concluded Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference -- the ultimate gathering of the world's nuclear experts who discussed everything from deterrence to disarmament, from #HowThisWorks #India #Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement #Nuclear proliferation #Pakistan #US
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How the Indian judgment on Novartis will reverberate across the world
Washington : What has Big Pharma companies’ pants on fire is not the loss of one patent for Novartis but the “contagion effect” of the Indian Supreme Court judgment that will reverberate through the rest of the developing world. The 112-page judgement is thoughtful, exhaustive and exhausting. It leaves #Cipla #glivec #HowThisWorks #intellectual property rights #Novartis #patents #US
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Marines’ case: Italy argues both ways
New Delhi: India and Italy have found a face-saver through adept negotiations with the return of the marines but whether the families of the two dead Indian fishermen will get justice is open to question. The two Italian marines are unlikely to face real consequences when they return home and while #ConnectTheDots #Italian marines case
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Congress’ Kandahar: India should tell Italy: BASTA! Enough.
New Delhi: The vanishing Italian marines should mark the end of our age of innocence about the world. Indian governments take legal undertakings, treaties and anything stamped so seriously they forget there is also a real world out there. In that world killers abscond, ambassadors lie for their country and #diplomacy #European Union #India #InMyOpinion #Italian Marines #Italy #Supreme Court
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Afzal Guru hanging: Pak US ambassador recommits to Kashmir cause
Washington: Narratives in Washington can be changed to suit the objectives. It is a subtle art but you know it’s on display when officials start using a different language about a country almost overnight, as it were. For about three months I have been hearing from US and Pakistani diplomats and #Afzal Guru #HowThisWorks #India Pakistan relations